a commercial treaty between rule of law states such as the united states and canada, where the various agreements underline the european union, they had near the power of domestic law as does a common defense pact, such as that which told nato to get there. but universal treaties, necessarily including allstate's, democratic and tyrannical, compliant and congenitally noncompliant, such agreements will not be adhered to by rogue states " cheap as suits their purposes, rearing -- rendering the treaty not only useless but worse than useless. for example, alleged violations of the non-proliferation treaties are referred to the iaea, a procedure that invariably leads to complacency to say nothing of endless delay, because it gives the illusion of enforcement. these kinds of agreements are almost never enforced. indeed, but one act of enforcement in recent times, the removal of the rogue regime of saddam hussein after a decade of serial violations of security council resolutions demanding disarmament, has been so widely and universally denounced the around the world that obama has spent much